Well, hopefully the mod_perl community isn't so small that etoys counted as a
sizable fraction :)
I'm ex etoys Europe and have set up a mod_perl webdev company in London
assembling high traffic web sites, so I guess you can count me in as one of them
freed up mod_perl people. I was tempted to email Stas, but there's no way I could
pay his salary. I'm sure alot of companies out there would kill to have your name
associated with them though.
Jim Winstead wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:01:39AM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> > At 12:00 PM 4/27/01 -0400, JR Mayberry wrote:
> > >there will be more dreams jobs like you described.. simple fact is, I
> > >couldn't name more then 3 companies in my area who use it, and I never
> > >expect to do work with it again.
> >
> > ... on the other hand, even as recently as one year ago, it was almost
> > impossible for our company (in southern california) to find mod_perl
> > programmers. Our last few job searches, tho, we've been able to find a
> > *very* good supply of applicants with mod_perl experience... it's no longer
> > been an issue. (Most mod_perl applicants seem to have come by their
> > experience from working on college campuses, BTW... which is another
> > interesting -- and valuable -- change. Not the fact that schools use it,
> > but the _volume_ of applicants who are now learning it there.)
>
> well, i suspect a lot of those candidates actually surfaced as other
> idealab-backed companies either tanked or shifted direction. the
> death of etoys freed up a number of mod_perl-savvy developers. :)
>
> (in all seriousness, though, idealab and many of the companies it
> has spawned is a mod_perl-friendly place.)
>
> and my experience is that you don't need to hire mod_perl experts --
> specific skillsets are some distance down on the list of things i
> look at in hiring someone. given a good framework to develop in,
> and a good programmer who is willing to learn, mod_perl skills
> will bloom.
>
> but, outside of the linux companies and covalent, i don't know where
> one would look for a job just developing mod_perl itself.
>
> jim
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